Calvin Synod Herald, 2005 (106. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
2005-01-01 / 1-2. szám
CALVIN SYNOD HERALD 11 to teach for a week in the seminary and teachers college on Evangelism and Christian education. In the villages and among the homeless, the students will meet many who not only need assistance physically, but also spiritually. We will be addressing these needs over a period of five successive days. In addition, plans are being considered for two groups to go over next summer to work on projects in Transylvania. The one would like to work on the new Christian School at Felor and the other on finishing off an examination room for Dr. Bakos in the village of Komlód. Such groups travel, of course, at their own expense and their viability is yet being studied; but we pray that the Lord may enable this work to be accomplished. In the service of grace, For TRAC, Rev. Bernard Woudenberg assignments in which we learned about Australia, about the United States of America, and about Ohio. We also watched videos about Australia. We were given tips on traveling and packing. During the meetings we had “icebreakers” where we met with the other delegates we were traveling with. Also while we were on the trip, we had to keep a journal about the things we did, and we were told a lot of information by our tour guide about the towns and the cities that we were in, and the ones we passed through. While being on the farm, we learned a lot about farming the Australian way. A lot of my friends, by mistake, call the trip that I was on a vacation. This was definitely more than a vacation. This was a fun educational experience. On a vacation, you aren’t required to take an exam where you can be passed or failed. On this trip, on the last night, we were asked questions to determine if we got out of this trip what we should have, and I passed. Formore information about the Transylvania ReformedAssistance Committee and its services, you can contact the TRAC offices by email: trac@sibd.org Steven Nyeste’s Australia Report Part I. Dear Friends and Sponsors! First of all, I would like to thank everyone who helped me both financially, and through prayers to be able to make this trip to Australia. Without these two things, without you, I would never have been able to experience the wonderful country that Australia is. I have made a lot of friends on this trip, and I have met a lot of interesting and kind people. I also found out more things about myself. For example I found out that I really like crocodile meat. And I found courage in myself, as I abseiled down a rock twice, the second time blindfolded, and I went on Australia’s longest zip line which went 313 feet in 10 seconds. I also went through caves with really tight passageways. And most of all, I overcame one of my biggest problems of meeting new people, as I made a lot of friends amongst people that before this trip I didn’t know. For this I am also extremely grateful and thankful. I will first talk about the several meetings that we had before we left. When I first received the letter about being recommended to become a People to People Student Ambassador of Peace to Australia, it talked about the programs that we would be doing, and it listed the location of the first meeting. When I went to the meeting, there must have been at least 600 people there These were all students from various High Schools in Ohio, and their parents. They explained the purpose and history of this program, they showed a video and talked more about the trip. Later, we learned about other upcoming meetings, and 1 attended them also. One meeting a month, lasting two hours each. For six months. These meetings were held at a library, and we had to do Steven in Australia hugging a Koala Bear I will now tell what activities we did in order. The first 2 days of this trip were spent traveling. Because of the international time line, we only arrived in Sydney on June 21, two days after we left the United States. We didn’t have any major troubles traveling except for when we were on the plane in Los Angeles, taxiing onto the runway. All of a sudden the electricity cut out, and it stayed that way for about an hour, until it was fixed. It may not seem like a big problem, but if it would have happened about 7 minutes later, after we took off, it could have been a problem. Possibly a real big one too. The funny thing about it was when the flight crew reassured us by saying there was nothing to be worried about, we actually expected this problem to happen. I might be naive but the thought crossed my mind that if they expected it to happen, would it have been such a big problem fixing it, say, before we almost took off? Well God protected us after all, and we took off, and landed in Sydney without any
